paypal fraud

[sonic]

be careful peeps I just got this, it's a con.


Please Update Your Account


Dear valued PayPal member:
It has come to out attention that your PayPal account information needs to
be updated as . part of .our continuing. commitment to protect .your account
and to reduce the instance of .fraud on our website. If you .could please take
5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records
you will not run into any future problems with the online services.

However, failure to update your records will result in account suspension.
Please update your records on or before May 16, 2007.

Once you have updated. your account records, your PayPal session will not
be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your PayPal records click on the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?dispatch

PayPal, Inc.
P.O. Box 45950
Omaha, NE 68145

Sincerely,

PayPal

 

[Arnold]

Nice use of full stops there. If anyone falls for that, they should be banned from using a computer! It's blatantly dodgey.

 

[tse_adam]

the link seems genuine though?

 

[rlees85]

the link seems genuine though?

i bet the link in the email wasnt.... when he cutted and pasted it, it only copied the text (not the link) then msc forums would have automatically turned it into a link again (becuase it starts with http://) lol if ne1 understands that nice one

 

[Courior]

the link will look legit but when you click it actually goes to a completly different place which opens a popup real quick and then forwards you to the REAL paypal site. now as you have the real site in the background the popup also looks legit and so people fall for it.

 

[sonic]

the link came up as a phishing website and my browser wouldn't let me connect.